The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-28
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HOME JOTTINGS.
-Sleighing continues good

-Sleighing continues good.
Look out for the Coming Man"
Feb. s.
w. b. Smith is closing out his stock
of clothing at auction.
See advertisement of New Victories
Gained Every Day"
Carl Dice, he of Cash grocery fame,
has new and complete price-list in to-
days paper.
The Knights of Labor are arranging
for a grand ball on the evening of Feb.
l4th-St. Valentines day.
DIR. +. L. Halves will be at Good
Thunder Jan. 5lst, prepared to do any
thing in the line of dentistry.
Parties who held their wheat when
it was down 10 IS and 60 cents are in
luck. The market is now firm at IS and
20 cents.
We note with pleasure the apparent
success which the Mankato Post is meet
ing. It's recent enlargement is indica-
tive of thrift.
Every member of the Building 4
Loan Association has a voice in its man.
agement. 1t is essentially "Of the peo-
pie and for the people"
&C. D. Taylor's tire-proof safe got off
of time yesterday, and it required the
ingenuity of a st. Paul expert to
straighten the lock out.
The subject for discourse in the
Christian church next Lords Day even
ing will be "Why do Processing Christ
ians ask Sinners to rise up and be prayed
for?''
Attorney Ogle has rented one of the
pleasant offices in Odd Fellows block.
There are three or four very fine rooms
left, and they can be rented at very rea-
sonable figures.
The Methodist Episcopal church
socIable will be held on Wednesday
evening next at the residence of DR..
Jacoby. Supper ready at O'Clock.
Everybody invited.
Mcconnell & Thomas have an adj
vertisement in to-day's issue that will
carry conviction TO the reader. They
claim to make profit on everything they
sell. Read what they say.
Those wishing to learn mole of the
workings and principles of the Building
* Loan Association are requested to be
present at the Association Saturday eve
ming Feb. 9Th, over Collins Drug Store.
The report which gained wide cir
cula ton Saturday night that a man had
been fatally stabbed at the dance in West
Mankato, proved a hoax. The party
was peaceable and no disturbance ofany
kind occurred.
Prank Dagel, Esq, of Amboy, sold
his l6O acre farm last week, to Mr..
A. Z. Chapman of Winnebago City, fol
$500. Mr.. Dagel will remove his fami-
Iy to Winnebago, where he will make
his future home.
The Second Reg't Band has recon
sidered its determination to resign, has
withdrawn its recognition, and will furn-
ish the best kind of music for the militia
boys during their annual encampment
IN this city next summer.
Hon. G. u. Spaulding is the happy
father of bouncing boy. This is c. G.'s
reward, no doubt, for being defeated il
last falls election. We know of lots o.
people who would be glad to suffer polit
cal defeat for such prize.
Quarterly meeting services will be
held at The Methodist Episcopal church
on Sunday next. Rev. James Door vii
officiate. Love Feast at o'clock a. m
Preaching at 1890 a. m. A temperance
meeting will be held in the evening.
Mr.. Jonas BurriIl of Belgrade
called at our Office yesterday and made
his thirty-frst annual payment on thu
FREE Press. Such prompt paying sub
scribers as Mr.. b. need not worry abou
the hereafter. They will be well cared
for.
The fire wardens have been invest
igating private residences and business
houses during the week. They found
stoves and fues generally in good con
dition, although there were some rathe
dangerous places found, and ordered re
paired.
The Building Association hay,
loaned money to 6S members durInl
the last six years. taking as securit.
first Mortgage on real estate. In mos
cases houses were built or paid for will
the money thus loaned. They hav,
never met with a loss or forclosed
moatgage.
e. Bludsoe, Esq, has had his barbe
shop repapered, has put in gas ant
otherwise improved the appearance Q
his rooms. "Eph" is bound that h
will keep up with the times, and hi
patrons are informed that no one vii
be allowed TO give better shayes, or close
hair cuts than he.
Postmaster Cannon has added an
other clerk 10 his force in the postoffic
in the person of Mr.. Fritz Kicher,
bright young German. With the incon
venient and altogether inadequate faci
tiles for handling mail matter, create
number of clerks is required than woul
otherwise be the case, but Mr.. Canno
is determined to do his best to accor
the public good service.
-"Uncle" Joe Reynolds received
letter Tuesday with the following inscriI
ton as the address: "Mr. Joseph ReyI
Odds, the old Indian Warrior, Mankatt
Blue Earth County, Minnesota, Whine
bago Reservation. Upon the end of til
envelope this return" inscription stoo
out in bold relief: eff not called for
1856 days return to Mrs. - you kno
who" Now it is quite proper TIN
"Uncle" Joe tell US who this Mrs. blan
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